too many folders under Documents and Setting

[Talal Itani]

Hello. I am in the process of cleaning up my hard drive. Under 'Documents
and Settings' I have more folders that I have accounts. I have 4 accounts
on the PC yet 11 folders under Documents and Settings. Can you tell me why,
and how can I solve that? Thank you.

Talal Itani

 

[Dave Patrick]

What are the account names? What are the folder names?

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[Talal Itani]

What are the account names? What are the folder names?

Ok, here is the information:

Account names:
talal
Jenna
martini kiss
Terry
Guest

Folder names:
Administrator
administrator2
administrator2_2
All Users
Default User
jUnE
L!nDs
talal
Tarek
TEMP
TEMP.P4-2400

Thanks for the help

 

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Hello. I am in the process of cleaning up my hard drive. Under
'Documents and Settings' I have more folders that I have accounts. I
have 4 accounts on the PC yet 11 folders under Documents and Settings.
Can you tell me why, and how can I solve that? Thank you.

Talal Itani

You probably have the following folders in addition to profiles for the
accounts that you normally use:

Administrator
All Users
Default User
LocalService
NetworkService
and possibly one for the Guest account, if that is enabled?

These are all normal - leave them alone.
You may also have other service account profiles, if you run services
such as web or database servers. Some antivirus programs create a user
profile for the service account that the antivirus runs under.

The above may not all be visible, depending on whether or not you have
explorer set to show hidden/superhidden files.

You could have profiles for user names that have been deleted.

If access to a profile failed on login, it may have created a new folder
called something like username.machinename or username.domainname - check
the datestamp on the ntuser.dat.log files to determine which profile
folder was used most recently, and that is the one you probably want to
keep.

 

[Dave Patrick]

The Administrator and Guest account is a built-in account and cannot be
deleted. The Guest account by default is disabled.


\All Users provides commonality to all users that logon.

\Default User is an image used to create profiles for new users.

While logged on as each of the users that you're currently using and from a
command prompt;

echo %userprofile%
to see which ones are active. The others can be deleted.


administrator2
administrator2_2
jUnE
L!nDs
talal
Tarek
TEMP
TEMP.P4-2400

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect